With March Madness underway, the college football world looks on and awaits its turn to build a bracket. The next edition of the College Football Playoff projects to be another thrilling postseason tournament after the inaugural 12-team field delivered on expectations and provided an entertaining Ohio State national championship run. Which teams get into the field, and which ones wreak havoc on the bracket like the Buckeyes, can only be answered across a competitive 2025 season.
Bracket-busters are a hallmark of the basketball tournament, and they could become a reality in football now that the field is expanded to 12 teams. If a lowly seeded team reaches its peak in the postseason like the 2024 Buckeyes, multiple upsets would not be out of the question.
Half of the battle for potential Cinderella teams, though, is getting into the bracket to begin with. There are a number of candidates outside the top 12 of the way-too-early rankings to do just that.
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Below are the candidates to bust the 2025 College Football Playoff bracket.
